The document discusses whether there is a distinct "Filipino psychology" and some of the challenges in defining it. It notes that early attempts to characterize Filipino psychology failed to produce meaningful results. However, over the past 40 years, studies by Filipino and foreign scholars have provided insights into the customs and ways of various Filipino groups. While a definitive book on Filipino psychology has yet to be written, the work of researchers like E. Arsenio Manuel and Sixto Orosa among others have helped establish guidelines for such studies and provide data on groups like the Negritoes. The document suggests using the plural term "Psychologies of the Filipinos" instead of the singular to account for differences between groups. It also proposes

1. IS THERE A FILIPINO PSYCHOLOGY?

2. Hon. Norberto Romualdez,
then Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Philippines,
“Psychology of the Philippines”
@ Ateneo de Manila University
Towards the Middle of February, 1965,

3. Who was given the task of writing his
observations and opinions about the
Filipinos, their peculiar psychology,
indiosyncracies and customs.
Missionary

4. “Here is all that I have found about the
Filipinos”
Expecting a master piece to follow, the
elders turned the pages, only to discover the
next three hundred leaves of the book black.

5. Perhaps, witting or unwittingly Romualdez
himself help start the filling, but contrary to the
hypothetical conclusion derived from story, the
cooperative efforts of both Filipinos and foreigners, all
working during the last forty years, provide us today
with more than enough chapter-substance for the
much-needed starting volume of Filipino psychology.

6. • Francis Lambrecht
• Morice Vanoverbergh
Beldian Fathers
(Northern Mountains)

7. • E. Arsenio manuel
• Yusup M. Tan
• E. Salkiya Kasman
• Mamerto Mata
• Sixto Orosa
Scholars
(Mindanao)

8. E. Arsenio manuel
His pioneering work with
the peoples of Central Mindanao
as well as his striving to provide
clear-cut guidelines and
principles by which such study
is to be undertaken earned him
the title "Father of Modern
Filipino Folklore Studies

9. SIXTO Y. OROSA
(1891-1981)
A pioneering
physician, Dr. Sixto Y.
Orosa was the author of
the landmark Philippine
Provincial Hospital Act.

10. .
provides us sufficient data for abstracting insight into
the fine ways and customs of the Negritoes and the
natives inhabiting the Mariveles range.
C. Douglas chretien

11. Authorities

12. Old Pioneer Authors

13. Why is it that no one has yet
written a definitive book on
Filipino psychology?
Question:

14. The phrase “Psychology of the
Filipinos” when used a title of the
treatise must necessarily be taken to
imply a dissertation written on
behavioral characteristics applicable to
all the natives or at least to a greater
majority of the population inhabiting the
country.

15. 1. The researcher may easily make the mistake of assigning a trait
generally found among all Filipinos with the exception of the
Tinguines, and the tinguianes will find this either flattering or
insulting;
The Three possible kinds of
imprudences

16. 2. The Scholar may, upon being constantly faced with exceptional
groups, give up the whole study in exasperation and for reasons of
inconsistency;
3. The writer may, in a mood of irritation, eliminate the exceptional
groups entirely and present us with the psychology of the Filipino
people minus the Aetas, the Tagbanuas and the Apayaos.

17. Nevertheless, it should also be claimed that If a compilation of
so called Filipino behavioral traits were to be made, a majority of the
attributes listed would be prove generally true of many races and it is
the distinct customs and pelicular modes of thinking found among such
isolated groups as the kalingas, the tausugs and the Ilongos that would
precisely prove of greater value in the differential study of Filipino
psychology.

18. “The Psychologies of the
Filipinos”
instead of
“The Psychology of the
Filipinos”

19. 1. Native
2. Dominatly native but colored by foreign influences, and
3. Dominantly foreign adapted characteristis or traits.
Social traits

20. THANK YOU! :D
Submitted to:
Prof. Agnes Montalbo
Rizal Technological University